Magick Matters

24.01.2023

“Financial Astrology: How to Forecast Business, and The Stock Market” by LCDr. David Williams (1982 edition)

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"Financial astrology represents the culmination of 30 years of research by the acknowledged dean of American astro-enonomists. In this, his magnum opus, Commander Williams shares the techniques he used to score an 80 percent accuracy rating in predicting the ups and downs of the US economy in his "Annual Business and Stock Market" column, for more than two decades a regular feature in Dell Horoscope magazine. Astrological concepts have been incorporated into a method which does not require any previous knowledge of astrology, astronomy, business or the stock market. Financial Astrology is a comprehensive yet easy to understand presentation of Commander Williams's masterful system. It is an absolutely indispensable reference for anyone interested in...>>

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24.01.2023

“Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy” by Marla Segol

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"In this provocative book, Marla Segol explores the development of the kabbalistic cosmology underlying Western sex magic. Drawing extensively on Jewish myth and ritual, Segol tells the powerful story of the relationship between the divine and the human body in late antique Jewish esotericism, in medieval kabbalah, and in New Age ritual practice. Kabbalah and Sex Magic traces the evolution of a Hebrew microcosm that models the powerful interaction of human and divine bodies at the heart of both kabbalah and some forms of Western sex magic. Focusing on Jewish esoteric and medical sources from the fifth to the twelfth century from Byzantium, Persia, Iberia, and southern France, Segol argues that in its fully developed...>>

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24.01.2023

“The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance” by Frank Klaassen (alternate rip)

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"In this original, provocative, well-reasoned, and thoroughly documented book, Frank Klaassen proposes that two principal genres of illicit learned magic occur in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic (in its extreme form, overt necromancy), which could not. Image magic tended to be recopied faithfully; ritual magic tended to be adapted and reworked. These two forms of magic did not usually become intermingled in the manuscripts, but were presented separately. While image magic was often copied in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, The Transformations of Magic demonstrates that interest in it as an independent genre declined precipitously around 1500. Instead, what persisted was the...>>

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24.01.2023

“Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization” edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers

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"This collection of essays considers the place of magic in the modern world, first by exploring the ways in which modernity has been defined in explicit opposition to magic and superstition, and then by illuminating how modern proponents of magic have worked to legitimize their practices through an overt embrace of evolving forms such as esotericism and supernaturalism. Taking a two-track approach, this book explores the complex dynamics of the construction of the modern self and its relation to the modern preoccupation with magic. Essays examine how modern “rational” consciousness is generated and maintained and how proponents of both magical and scientific traditions rationalize evidence to fit accepted orthodoxy. This book also describes how people...>>

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24.01.2023

“Basic Witches: How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven” by Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman

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"A magical lifestyle guide for everything from powering up a stylish crystal to banishing terrible Tinder dates Want to feel terrifyingly beautiful? Wear the right color of eye shadow to project otherworldly glamour. Need to exorcise a toxic friendship? Repeat the proper incantation and make it disappear. Want to increase your energy? Whip up a tasty herbal “potion” to rev up your stamina. DIY projects, rituals, and spells—along with fun historical sidebars—summon the best trends of the modern witchy lifestyle and the time-trusted traditions of the hell-raising women of the past. With humor, heart, and a hip sensibility, Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman dispense witchy wisdom for the curious, the cynical, and anyone who could...>>

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